History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . tary, upon incorporationof the firm finally becoming president ofthat old and well-known concern, July 12,1916. During this time he developed thewholesale business from an output of $320,-000 yearly to over $15,000,000, incident-ally moving the lowly hosiery business intoa position of the first rank and finally reor-ganizing and taking sole possession of thew^holesale business under the name ofEmery & Beers Company, Inc., with officesand salesrooms at Broadway and Twenty-fourth street. The sterling qualities i
History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . tary, upon incorporationof the firm finally becoming president ofthat old and well-known concern, July 12,1916. During this time he developed thewholesale business from an output of $320,-000 yearly to over $15,000,000, incident-ally moving the lowly hosiery business intoa position of the first rank and finally reor-ganizing and taking sole possession of thew^holesale business under the name ofEmery & Beers Company, Inc., with officesand salesrooms at Broadway and Twenty-fourth street. The sterling qualities inherited from Puritan ancestry included a tremen-dous capacity for work, initiative and apti-tude for detail and organization, togetherwith an ability to forecast the future and thefaculty of judging the character and abilityof men, which enabled him to surroundhimself with a reliable staff of assistants to carry his plans to absolute success. Notcontent with the demands made upon himin developing Onyx Mr. Emery has foundtime to devote to the business, financial and. JOSEPH H. EMERY civic interests of the country and hisadopted city. He is a member of theChamber of Commerce of the United Statesof America, the Chamber of Commerce ofNew York City, the Merchants Associationof New York and the Union League is also interested in other commercialconcerns and is on the board of directors-of several banks. 163 HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXTILES. THE SANFORD MILLS L. C. CHASE & CO., Selling Agents A volume of well-filled pages would berequired to give in detail the history of theSanford Mills, which transformed the San-ford, Maine, of 1867 into the thriving in-dustrial center of today. The actual conversion of this rustic farm-ing village, composed of thirty dwellings anda corner grocery, into the important com-mercial and manufacturing Sanford of thepresent, had its beginning in the summer of1867, when Thomas Goodall came therefrom Troy, New Hampshire. Plant of Sanford Mill
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